Out of the Ashes (PB)

Awards:   Short-listed for WH Smith Book Awards (Children's Book of the Year) 2002 Shortlisted for WH Smith Book Awards (Children's Book of the Year) 2002. Shortlisted for WHSmith Book Awards (Children's Book of the Year) 2002.
Author:   Michael Morpurgo ,  Michael Foreman
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780330400176


Pages:   128
Publication Date:   07 June 2002
Recommended Age:   9-11
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained


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Out of the Ashes (PB)


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Awards

  • Short-listed for WH Smith Book Awards (Children's Book of the Year) 2002
  • Shortlisted for WH Smith Book Awards (Children's Book of the Year) 2002.
  • Shortlisted for WHSmith Book Awards (Children's Book of the Year) 2002.

Overview

This story is not a story at all. It all happened. On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed for ever. Foot and mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morley's Devon home, but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected and every animal is destroyed. Will the Morley's flock be next? Will their pedigree diary herd, the sows with their piglets, and Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb, survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting and hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life....

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Author:   Michael Morpurgo ,  Michael Foreman
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan
Imprint:   Macmillan Children's Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.112kg
ISBN:  

9780330400176


ISBN 10:   0330400177
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   07 June 2002
Recommended Age:   9-11
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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February 2001, and farming communities the length and breadth of the country are on the brink of catastrophe. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth spreads remorselessly through northern England, decimating farms and leaving piles of burning corpses in its wake. The television reports, the newspaper photos - these all conveyed the scale and horror of the tragedy, but with so many people affected, so many thousands of animals destroyed, how can we begin to comprehend the suffering of an individual amongst so many personal tragedies? Yet out of this bleakness and despair has sprung one of the most startling, most profoundly moving books for many months. This is the fictional diary of a young girl, written between January and April, when the crisis was at its height. It chronicles the arrival of this dreadful disease on her father's farm, and the awful price they have to pay. Morpurgo - founder of Farms for City Children - wrote the novel very quickly, as a gut response to the horrors of foot-and-mouth. He delves deep into the wretchedness experienced by the Morleys; the disease creeps closer and closer, and despite all their precautions the farm becomes infected. Becky is riddled with guilt - she thinks she is responsible for bringing the disease to the farm. Her father is devastated by the destruction of his animals, and sinks into depression. This huge epidemic consisted of thousands and thousands of private tragedies; Morpurgo tells the story of just one. It is truly heartbreaking, yet the novel ends on a positive note. A new beginning is possible - life can indeed spring up out of the ashes of these dreadful funeral pyres. (Kirkus UK)


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Michael Morpurgo’s novels for children have made him one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers of his generation. He is the winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award, the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. His novel PRIVATE PEACEFUL, about two brothers serving in the First World War, featured on the shortlists of four major literary prizes. From 2003-2005 he was the third Children’s Laureate. He set up the charity `Farms for City Children’, and for their pioneering work he and his wife were awarded the MBE in 1999.

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